Benchmarking a GTX 1070 on a 75Hz monitor, how to get more than 75fps?

[emothxughts]

Long story short, I bought a used Zotac Mini GTX 1070 a month ago and it's been working fine and crash free ever since.

 

Just one little annoyance though, it doesn't go above exactly 75fps in benchmarks like Unigine Heaven and Superposition. (I hook it to a 75Hz monitor via HDMI). My previous AMD cards (RX580, RX5600XT, RIP both of them) were able to go above 75fps in these benchmarks, not without screen tearing of course, but they did. As a result, I can't get accurate benchmark scores based on the max FPS the GPU can crank out, only the scores when the FPS is capped at 75fps.

 

I tried turning the frame limit off in the NVIDIA control panel and turning Vsync off too, my FPS is still capped at 75fps. So anyone know how to make the GPU go above the 75fps limit for benchmarking purposes? (I'm perfectly fine gaming at max 75fps though.)

[Naijin]

7 minutes ago, emothxughts said:

Long story short, I bought a used Zotac Mini GTX 1070 a month ago and it's been working fine and crash free ever since.

 

Just one little annoyance though, it doesn't go above exactly 75fps in benchmarks like Unigine Heaven and Superposition. (I hook it to a 75Hz monitor via HDMI). My previous AMD cards (RX580, RX5600XT, RIP both of them) were able to go above 75fps in these benchmarks, not without screen tearing of course, but they did. As a result, I can't get accurate benchmark scores based on the max FPS the GPU can crank out, only the scores when the FPS is capped at 75fps.

 

I tried turning the frame limit off in the NVIDIA control panel and turning Vsync off too, my FPS is still capped at 75fps. So anyone know how to make the GPU go above the 75fps limit for benchmarking purposes? (I'm perfectly fine gaming at max 75fps though.)

Is Vsync disabled in the application?

[emothxughts]

5 minutes ago, Naijin said:

Is Vsync disabled in the application?

Disabled in both the benchmark apps and NVCP.

[jaslion]

DDU any display driver the old amd and new nvidia.

 

Then install the lates nvidia one. This sounds like a confused broken driver

[emothxughts]

20 hours ago, jaslion said:

DDU any display driver the old amd and new nvidia.

 

Then install the lates nvidia one. This sounds like a confused broken driver

Fair enough, last time I ran DDU was when I swapped out the AMD GPU for this NVIDIA one. Afterwards, whenever there's a new NVIDIA driver, I updated through the GeForce Experience software, without DDU-ing the previous drivers.

 

(Off-topic, but I miss the AMD Adrenalin software, graphics driver settings, recording & streaming, undervolting overclocking & monitoring, all from one piece of software. Unlike NVIDIA)

[emothxughts]

Bump:

 

So I finally got around to DDU-ing my NVIDIA drivers and installing the latest (as of time of writing) driver 536.23 manually (as in not with Geforce Experience). I then set Vsync and frame limit to "off" in NVCP. Then I ran Superposition. Nope, FPS still capped at 75 fps. At least the card is running stable as always and not too toasty (I have my own undervolt and fan curve settings). I'm beginning to think the interaction between my 1070 card and my monitor is causing the 75fps cap.

[emothxughts]

Sorry for necro-ing my own thread, but while I have upgraded to an RTX 2060 Super card, I'm still getting capped at 75fps in these benchmarks, even with framerate cap and Vsync turned off globally in the NVCP, how frustrating!

 

That is, until I opened my Rivatuner Statistics Server and noticed that I set my framerate limit there to, you guessed it, 75fps. So I disabled the framerate limit in RTSS, then disabled the framerate cap and Vsync globally in NVCP, and I started to get framerates above 75fps in these two benchmarks, I was able to get max triple digit fps in these benchmarks.

 

TL;DR: Forgot to turn off framerate limit in RTSS.